Ask, Seek, Knock

Icon of Pentecost

First Week of Lent, Thursday

โ€œAsk and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks, receives; and the one who seeks, finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.

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Beyond Descartes

Friday of the First Week in Ordinary Time (Year I)

Hebrews 4:1-5, 11; Mark 2:1-12

The aim of the Christian life may be expressed in many ways: union with God, communion in the Trinity, deification (theosis), the acquisition of the Holy Spirit, returning to the Fatherโ€™s house (the heavenly Jerusalem), or in the words of the author of Hebrews, entering into Godโ€™s Sabbath โ€œrest.โ€… Read the rest

The Kingdom of God

Christ Pantocrator, Mosaic from the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, Turkey.

32nd Week in Ordinary Time, Thursday (Year II)

Luke 17:20-25

Asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, Jesus said in reply, โ€œThe coming of the Kingdom of God cannot be observed, and no one will announce, โ€˜Look, here it is,โ€™ or, โ€˜There it is.โ€™Read the rest